*dying laughing at the FF video*.  I've seen worse things entering ddr tourneys.  Hell, Otakon '08 I entered DDR in fuzzy cat slippers, a large fur robe, and had 2 female friends on leashes....and won.  Now I want to look that pic back up hahah.

Pantsuuu!  The same pantsuuu from the sakuracon boards?  I'm def on board with running a IIDX tourney.

*edit - Also, the game room sounds sexy Laura.  Aside from taking pictures and con misadventures, you've just described my weekend.

@Tuan: Fatal Furry was Scrambles The Cat/Eric/Eric-c-c on these forums.  He's fucking awesome.

i will be attending

Yesss!! I'm going to have to bring a spare change of my sports attire with me so I could formally compete. Course that's optional seeing as there was someone in a Fatal Fury costume that participated in the extreme tournament last year:

Fatal furry! DDR match

Good times... I forgot who it was under the FF cos-play.


This would be so awesome to see you and Tony be as Litchi and Bang-- those two are so comical in game and I'm sure you guys could pull off the look

Sup from your friendly Sakuracon Arcade Coordinator.  This year, we're looking at:

ITG 3
DDR Extreme
Bill's Pop'n 13
Drummania V3
Street Fighter IV from ACME
A couple of Initial D cabs

There will be an ITG tournament, a DDR tournament, and some kind of crazy challenge tournament, all organized by Yours Truly because that's the way we roll.

BTW: We still have staff positions open.  Your job would be to hang out in the arcade and make sure people don't break things/inform me or Tony if we need to repair pads/sensors/adjust volume/etc.  You have to work for 16 hours; I make the schedules and can probably accommodate preferences. Payment is a free badge.

Edit: Also, Tuan... I was thinking of doing Litchi and trying to talk Tony into doing Bang.  Maybe we could get an epic BlazBlue group together!

A couple SakuraCons ago, we hung out with Chris Foy by the ITG 3 cab, and one of the performing groups was Smile.dk :]

This last year, DM Ashura was there, I believe.
On top of ITG3 and DDR Extreme, we've had the PIU Pro2 cap there (where it premiered locally) and a Supernova, Pop'N, and Guitar Freaks arcades on freeplay. There's also StreetFighterIV and possibly BlazBlue among the non-rhythm arcades available. Next door, there would be a retro-gaming room, tabletop RP & cardgame room.. still a fraction of the gaming opportunities you'd see at PAX, which also takes place in the Seattle Convention Center.

Every year it's a little different, but Tuan and I will hopefully cosplay too this time around. About ¼ of the attendants tend to cosplay, from what I can tell.

At SakuraCon last year Pyramid Head graced us with his presence and played Pop'n Music and Pump It Up.

I hope he returns this year to do the same.

Here is the cell phone pic I took at the time:

http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=11878654&l=d62c05f804&id=691160175

My first ever anime con was last year here at Sakura Con. It was cool to see people dress up as anime characters and walk around and take pictures-- I took a picture of an oompa loompa on one of the days I was there

I loved the game room with all the dance games like itg, piu, and ddr. I also participated  in two of the dance game tournaments held during Sakura Con-- I made it in 3rd for the Itg tournament and 2nd for the DDR Extreme tournament. I had a lot of fun and I got to meet some new people. I'm hoping everything that was there last year be here this year.

I'm going to try and cos-play this year as Terumi from BlazBlue